Miles Szanto (Mik Varga) and Shari Sebbens (Annuska) in Teenage Kicks
By Gary Maddox, Sydney Morning Herald, Short Cuts: Australian film industry news
After breaking through with The Sapphires, Shari Sebbens' screen roles have included the television series Redfern Now, The Gods of Wheat Street and Warwick Thornton’s film The Darkside. Now she's playing a pregnant teenager whose partner has died in Teenage Kicks, a teenage drama that director Craig Boreham has been filming in Sydney. ''When we meet her, she's just lost her whole world,'' Sebbens says. Described as a sexually charged coming-of-age film, Teenage Kicks centres on Mik (Miles Szanto from Love My Way) as he struggles to deal with family obligations. ''It's about people trying to reach out and connect with each other in the circumstances of grief,'' Sebbens says.